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ENTROPY

I really liked some of
Bateson's "Metalogues":           BATESON

Some really beautiful
philosophical dialogs
between a father and
daughter.

One topic: entropy.

It had always puzzled me how
an essentially human concept
like "order" could be
governed by physical law.

Isn't the perception of
order unique to a given
culture, a given viewpoint?
Why then should order
spontaneously decrease?

Bateson supplies an answer: Whatever your
conception of order, there is always more
ways for things to be wrong than for         (Someday, I'm going to
things to be right... hence probability       learn something more
favors disorder.                              about Statistical Mechanics
                                              and see if this qualitative
                                              understanding holds up.)


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